Corsair H60 buzzing noises

NoobxCamper

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Jul 19, 2015
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I bought myself a corsair H60 and installed it. Just a little bit ago, it started making buzzing noises. I noticed that the buzzing noises stops when I touch my POWER cord. It's weird. I was trying to figure out if my fan was vibrating/loose but I accidentally touched the power cord and it stopped. I let go, and it started again.

I do not know what's going on, this is my first liquid cooling. My fan is installed on top of my radiator, and the radiator + fan are mounted to the top of my Corsair Obsidian 750D case. So no twists or anything like that.
 
Solution
For one thing, you don't have the pump and rad fan wired properly. Move the rad FAN to the CPU FAN header. It is a 4-pin PWM fan that belongs on the 4-pin PWM cpu fan header just like an air cooler's fan... so that the BIOS can control speed.

Then plug the 3-wire pump into either (1) a system fan header that you can set to FULL SPEED in BIOS. Or (2) directly to a Molex connector from the PSU with an adapter. You want the pump to always run at full rpm or it may burn up.
If the issue goes away simply by 'touching' the PSU's power cord, that is indeed a strange one. It's almost like something is out of balance and vibrating, and you are dampening the vibration by absorbing it. I have two H60s in service and neither of them has that issue. Are you sure the noise is from the H60? Fan? Pump?

Do you have the pump plugged into an always on full speed header? The fan connected to the CPU FAN header?
 



I am sure the noise is from the pump I believe. Because It's not the fan, the fan is quite. This buzzing noise is not your typical fan running at full speed. My pump is connected to the CPU header I believe, and my fan to one of the sys_fan headers. I double checked the screws, nothing's loose that could cause a vibration.
 
For one thing, you don't have the pump and rad fan wired properly. Move the rad FAN to the CPU FAN header. It is a 4-pin PWM fan that belongs on the 4-pin PWM cpu fan header just like an air cooler's fan... so that the BIOS can control speed.

Then plug the 3-wire pump into either (1) a system fan header that you can set to FULL SPEED in BIOS. Or (2) directly to a Molex connector from the PSU with an adapter. You want the pump to always run at full rpm or it may burn up.
 
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